That time a customer's toddler "fixed" my torque wrench during a tuneup

So last month I'm doing a full tuneup on this guy's gravel bike, and he brings his 4 year old kid to the shop. Cute kid, running around, I'm not mad. I step away for like 2 minutes to grab a new chain, come back, and the kid is holding my Park Tool torque wrench like a lightsaber, making pew pew noises. I laugh, take it back, finish the job. Next day I go to use it on a carbon stem and the click feels way off. Turns out the kid had twisted the adjustment collar all the way to like 3 Nm, but then somehow it got stuck. I had to take the whole handle apart to unstick it. Customer paid in cash, no tip, but his kid said "I helped the bike man!" and honestly that was the best part. Has anyone else had a small kid mess with their tools and had to do a full teardown just to get back to work?

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uma_lopez21d ago

... and then my buddy had the same thing happen with his digital caliper, kid just mashed the zero button and he spent an hour trying to figure out why everything measured wrong. Kids and tools man... they're lucky they're cute.